If any relationship is to endure, it involves letting each
person be who they are and who they were meant to be.
As Oscar Wilde said, “We kill the thing we love” if we
attempt to alter it to meet our own expectations – so too
with the earth. If we regard God’s creation as an entity
to serve our own purposes by in some way altering it,
we destroy its pristine beauty and damage what it was
meant to be.